After this manner therefore pray: Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
This at once takes away hatred, quells pride, casts out envy and brings in the mother of all good things, charity. By inward prayer the inequality of human things is thwarted. It shows how nearly equal are the king and the poor person in all those matters that are most indispensable and of greatest weight. Behind those closed doors before God, we are all equals. The Gospel of Matthew, Homily
